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Optimizing
AOL for viewing images —
| AOL has customized their Browser with the goal of making web pages load
quicker. The AOL browser compresses graphics, as a result, the images you view on the AOL
browser may not appear as the Designer intended them to be seen or it may fail to load
images all together. On informational type web sites (where graphics are often used just
to add a little "spice" to a page) you may appreciate this "favor"
that AOL has done for you! However, on image intensive web sites & sites where
maintaining image quality is important you will likely have problems. You may need to
shut off AOL's compressed graphics setting to use our Java Applet. We are going to
show you how to easily optimize AOL so that you can view all web images as they were
intended to be seen. If you have been getting "unable to load image"
messages, errors loading photos or the photos & background just "looks off"
then this will surely cure the problem. You may want to print this page,
otherwise just follow along - it will be painless, and yes, if you decide later you want
to undo this change you can do so! |
Are you ready? Refer to the Main Screen Shot below and let's go...
- Click the "My AOL" icon and a menu will appear.
- Click the "Preferences" menu item, and...
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| AOL 4.0 Main Screen Shot |
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- ... a special "Preferences Window" now appears (shown below), click on the WWW
icon and ...
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| AOL Preferences Screen Shot |
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- ... an Internet Properties dialog box appears (shown below). It will probably open with
the "General" tab in the foreground so click on "Web Graphics" tab to
bring that panel into view.
- If there is a check mark next to "Use compressed graphics" you need to uncheck
(remove) it. You do this by simply clicking it. When finished, you want it to look just
the screen shot below.
- Click the OK button at the bottom.
- The AOL Preferences window (that you previously opened - shown above) will probably
still need to be closed, just click the "x" in the top right corner of that
window to close it and you are almost done...
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| AOL Internet Properties Screen Shot |
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- You will now need to close AOL and then re-open it to make this change take effect.
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